Wichita eagle., 1887-01-26
BLOW AND PROPHECY.
Wichita and Other Townsville Eagle
and other Papers.

W. K. Folks of Wellington, proposes te
have Wellington play Minneapolis to WITCH
ita's st. Paul. She cannot play anything
better than saltwater. 1t is Winfield that
will play the Minneapolis role. She Is bound
to outstrip Wichita in the race, and don
you forget it," We now put our figures fot
population within year at 5,0CO-W nfield
Courier
In which event Winfield q year hence
will have half as many people as Wichita
has now. In the mean time, friend Mill
ington what about Wichita's population
year hence? Is she to gain from ten to
twenty thousand and meet the expectations,
calculations and convictions Of the EAGLE,
or is she to stand still and wait for Winfield,
or 90 backwards and meet the town that
proposes to outstrip her?
The editor of the EAGLE has been ac-
cused of blowing about Wichita, especially
by the editors of surrounding towns. For
fourteen years have we had this dish served
up, first by the older towns and papers Of
the state, but for the last few years more
particularly by few towns in the south
west We would get tired of this accuse
ton if it would do any good. But it
wouldn't. What we desire to say now is
that people often mist axe prophecy for
blow For years we did a great amount
of blowing" about ''the Big Four coun-
ties of the state, Butler, CONVEY, Sumner
and Sedgwick. The papers and politicians
of the older portions Of the state laughed
and sneered But there was, all the same,
more prophecy than blow in our declara
tons touching these countless, everyone OF
which have been more than fulfilled. We
always. and at the same time, claimed
that a big town down here was inevitable
and that Wichita was bOnnd to be the
big town Of the big four, that Wichita
would be the big city of the southwest, in
fact, its metropolis Hasn'tall the EAGLE S
elbows" of Wichita been fulfilled? Didn't
she, and hasn't she made more and been |
more than our blows" even though they
were genuine prophecies? i dozen and
more years ago we saw, and we declared
all that Sedgwick county IS to day, and we
have witnesses by the hundreds. Fifteen I
years ago we saw Wichita all she is today, |
(save the fool real estate BOOM and we 50
declared, and there was not found a Win |
field paper to either dispute or deny it. The
EAGLE declares to-day that Wichita has |
within her borders not far from, if not
fully, thirty thousand people, bat outside I
of her own inhabitants ard of men who are
conversant with her growth for the |
past twelve months, there are few |
who believe the declaration; those !
are not one hal fof the editors andrepresent !
alive men Of the statc-and we include the |
editor of the Courier either believe !
it or can comprehend it.
But there are blows and blows" 4
elbow" which fails of carrying con,
viction to the average reader is worse
than no blow The EAGLE never INDUCES |
in that kind. The blow which is such an
admixture of wind and misrepresentation
as to disgust those most interested is worse |
than no blow The EAGLE has always
cschewed such. The blow which embod- !
les the perceptive grasp of prophecy.
whose primal facts are known and conceded |
and whose conclusions and ultimatumS /
carry conviction to the minds and inspire |
faith within the hearts Of the home partron |
and the foreign reader alike, is the blow
which counts. and is a blow that contains |
the essence of boon The EAGLE never
indulges in any other.